The father and grandfather of a young boy who was accidentally shot in the face on a rural property in Queensland in January have been charged by police.
The boy’s grandfather told Fairfax that he had been out on the family’s property hunting pests and accidentally left the gun in the property’s shed during a storm instead of putting it away properly. It took “only a few minutes” for the cousin to get to the gun.
“He played with something he shouldn’t have played with,” Tony Calvisi told the newspaper.
“They were in the old main shed. The gun was stored in an area where he shouldn’t have touched it.
“He’s old enough and been told never to touch anything but I don’t know why he even went there,” he added.
Cameron was released from the hospital at the end of last month, reported the newspaper.
Both men are scheduled to appear in the Warwick Magistrates Court on March 28.